Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.