Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.