It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We’ve all been there.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

As a writer, you are free.