It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

People go away and they don't come back.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.

Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.

Some issues stay fresh every time you open them up. It's like evil magical Tupperware -- it stays fresh forever.