The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

He perched the bat on his shoulder, giving a nod that he understood I needed his help. With one loud yell and a couple swings of the bat, he cleared me another path.

It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.

It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man.

Nona needs a very dry martini.

Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.

Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.

You know, Hope is also rather interesting, there's just not two of her, Dad teased Nona

Nona was as wacky as they came.

Had I just made a date with a tatted up bat wielding miscreant?

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes.

You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.

She has a idiosyncrasy of being honest...I like that.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

And joy is always a promise.

I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions ... are going to win.