If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

Foul and magical fumes bubbled out of the kettle, like the flatulence of a dragon on a demon-only diet.