Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.