Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.

I've killed my soul by playing the victim.

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

Never focus your attention on what the world has to say about you. Rather turn your focus inside and listen to what your inner voice has to say to you.

He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?

Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid Cheetos.