Self-expression is for babies and seals where it can be charming. A writer's business is to affect the reader.

The only thing that gets in the way of our plans and objectives is fate. It has its own path for you whether it's fair or unjust.

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

You deserve someone who is utterly obsessed with you.

Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

Death must be easy cuz life is hard

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.