I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

Pray for rain while digging a well.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.