Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.

These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth.

You said my name and my heart went rogue

And without forgiveness, there is never any peace.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.