Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

I have never lied, “ Mr. Barris counters, standing as well. “I do not share what I am not at liberty to say. I gave my word and I intend to keep it but I have never lied to you. You never even asked me, you assumed I knew nothing.

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

I draft quickly and then revise, a lot.