Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.

Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow, than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")

When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful.

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People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings

Patents are not forever, but inventions are

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.