It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.

When greed transcends rationale, morality becomes irrelevant.

That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

All things are known to the soul.

I can't drink. I have too much to lose. I can't lose my job over something I can stop.

I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.