Sing!" Grandpa Smedry yelled, his voice echoing down a hallway to the right."Sing!" If he breaks into song I think I might have to strangle myself... I thought, cringing.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.