My motto is: When in doubt, just keep lying. Even if you're terrible at it.

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.

Dear Aspiring Author; Write with heart. Put that open, honest, bare soul on paper.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

You’ve missed a lot of things. But mostly I think you’ve missed several opportunities to leave. Let me assist you to the door so that you won’t miss this next one.

Gilly Gilleshpee

Art is childhood.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

A coward never forgives.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.