There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

Jump or stay in the boat.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.

The leading cause of death is birth.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.