Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.

Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same.

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action.

We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.