[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

What good's a captive without her captor?

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range