Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I know how this whole garage as a front thing works.

Falling in love IS bizarre and creepy

Have you ever chopped down something with an ax? Not fun. I now have serious doubts regarding George Washington and his cherry tree.

War is a pleasant name of Mass Murder

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is saidIt was the dream itself enchanted me("The Circus Animal's Desertion")

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

What we all must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.