Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)

I'm pretty much a goddess around here.

The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.

I got desire to be alive when i got believe in your embrace i will die.Believe had Broken and desire Lost

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag. Cat re: Annette

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.