On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy Krueger. Granuaile MacTiernan

Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.

They never predict anything fun," Granuaile answered. "Just once I'd like to hear a prophet tell someone, 'Thou shalt win a bitchin' Camaro on a game show.

Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

When in doubt, blame the dark elves.

He will spit you and roast you with rosemary, and we will all sample your flesh tonight. Tomorrow you will be shat out into the snow. Your diplomacy is bold and edgy, sir.

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

I hoped you would consider it seriously instead of laughing at it.' 'Mr. Chamkanni said much the same thing in bed the first night home from the hospital

She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion.

Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

No cancer is going to tell me when my time is up.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

I'm a Libra, I always have two sides of everything.

Be who you are. If you're comfortable leading, you're comfortable. And if you're not, it's OK.

Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.