Maybe it was time to cut the strings of everyone’s expectations and free-fall for once in her life

He’d never be the kind of man she deserved, whole and strong, not physically and mentally crippled.

Kiss after wet kiss, he devoured her, almost a full year of pent-up desireunleashing in one terrible flood.

The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he’d do it. For her.

At Christmastime, whenever I feel overwhelmed and a little out of sorts, all I have to do is think of my father and the things he'd be doing if he were here – and I smile.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that’s just what I’ve gone and done.

I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.