As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.