Something must die so that others can live.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

How does one say something new and not retell?

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Part 5 The Voice- Make that my voice

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

I'm the undisputed champion of keeping my mouth shut and just sitting there like a piece of furniture.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock.