I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.

Do it for joy and you can do it forever