Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly jaded in our perception of what is really around us.

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

If you ask me now, I think every single writer whose work I've read has had some influence upon me, and I continue to be influenced, subtly, by everything I read, like a sponge. But then, what writers aren't? Being a literary sponge is one of the prerequisites for this insanity.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.