The house was the color of baby vomit.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

In time, she eased into sleep, and her head rested against the plane of his shoulder. He held her and wondered that such a simple intimacy between a man and woman could mean so much.

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

I finished a marathon.

When I met Dre, N.W.A. didn't exist, nor did Michel'le. And I think we had a chemistry. When started working on my stuff, we created something that was phenomenal.

It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.