Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

Don't fear me, Jenna."Amusement lit her features. "It's kind of hard to be afraid of a vampire who apologizes for using harsh language in front of a lady.""I'm not a vampire.""And I'm not a lady.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

It's hard to find normal celebrities.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.