if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

And the fight for who we are, for who we hope to become, has only begun.

I’m tickling a traced pattern over her bare hip. She’s pretending to sleep. Her smile is an idiot. A bad secret keeper.

I make my living doing freelance directing for North American television shot in Toronto, series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, and so forth.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

Never lookin' back or too far in front of me; the present is a gift and I just wanna be.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.