Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.

Zen Hugs - the hugs that you would get, if we were there, if we could hug you, but we aren't, and we can't.

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.