There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

I'm falling in love. I am in love. and it's not with Xander, though I do love him. I'm sure of that, as sure as I am of the fact what I feel for Ky is something different.

That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)

Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back

He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.

Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.

As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

And so I'm still giving some thought. I will transition, hopefully, into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

I always feel at home doing a little bit of action.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.