It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to w...

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Zach finally acknowledges me when my elbow smacks against his side as I shove my way between him and Rachel. He straightens and mumbles so only I can hear, I mutter.Zach smirks. Rachel asks. I say....

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing, Myrnin said. I think I might like it.

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang, said Hollus. And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Saxton shifted exhausted eyes over. Must we do this?What happened --I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I won't have to worry about being jumped like a felon again.Blay frowned. He and I...

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

For the history of the American Negro is unique also in this: that the question of his humanity, and of his rights therefore as a human being, became a burning one for several generations of Americans...

And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses.

I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I ca...