I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites; that was one of the advantages of being single.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.