Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.