Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

I was now privy to how a calm, average, peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

Some say crying purges. I say it drains. There’s a difference. One takes the bad things from you to help close a space. The other opens you and leaves you empty

Lay out your options, dismiss the ones that are of zero appeal, and focus on those that not only excite you, but make sense to you.

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

I was an expert horseman.

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

There is no medicine to cure hatred.

The small Hitlers are around us every day.