i heard from many tht whom u love show them wht u're they 'll love u more but whn i did it my love left me alone in dark nd cold .

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.

Excellence is always the target of champions.

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.