What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.