Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we reason, how could we expect not to be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?

Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.

You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone