For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

Fight your battles with words, not fists

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.