These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?