...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.