"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.