She'd taken his heart and his virginity and left him more bitter than sweet.

The Sweets rarely set foot on the avenues. They'd always lived on the street-side of town, where duct tape held everything together and WD-40 stopped the squeaks.

West Virginia had the Hatfield and the McCoys. Shakespeare had the Capulets and the Montagues. Salvation had the Martins and the Sweets.

And suddenly, her day turned into the kind that explained why God invented chocolate, comfy pants, and booze.

She hadn't just drunk the Salvation Kool-Aid - she'd started to brew her own.

Being this close to him was like sitting under a hotness heat lamp. In the desert. At high noon.

The journey is the destination. That's what you have to tell people.

Unfortunately, a lot of executives aren't like producers, and can't hear the diamond in the rough.

bees dig the plum blossoms

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.