Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

I choose to believe in God because it makes things better.

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.