The heart that bleeds, knows true heartache.-Nina Jean Slack

Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ♥-Nina Jean Slack

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

If you truly hold a stone, you can feel the mountain it came from.

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.