No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.

Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.

Once upon a time, he might’ve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same.

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

The water glittered under the moon’s careful watch, and, in the distance, steeples cut stark black silhouettes into the landscape of the distant city.

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

There's nothing I don't love about 'Mad Men.'

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

Work harder than your opponent.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.