Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

Autumn's the mellow time.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

The balancing act is challenging at times.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.

We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.

Bukowski said, "I know I'm good, so I like that people think I'm bad, because it gives me a dimension, effortlessly."

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.