Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

may my faith always beat the end of the daylike a hummingbird...returningto its favorite flower.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.

We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions.

The bottom line is that after we defeat the armed forces of Iraq, that we will want to and need to provide stability throughout that country.

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.