Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

Do you have plans or dreams? Why not have both?

Your past isn’t there to decide who you are

The astronomical community need to start acknowledging jet aircraft contrails to be the problem that they really are!

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop... everything! But it all blends together nicely. It's like a magical music rainbow.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

Sweat is my sanity. During the campaign, the days never went as well if I couldn't get out there and sweat.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

When we realize how little we mean to the universe, we realize how important we are to each other