The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

All you need to do is hold on tight...and believe.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.