Not your distress. Never that. I loved— I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we

The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.

I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.

I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.

I was asked a series of ques

I didn’t know what

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole

I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

Love is the fulfilling of the law.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.

Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.