Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.