“Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts.”

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Sometimes when you’re young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you’re living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.

Love isn’t soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Some things were better lost than found.

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

This love is a game and, darling, the truth is we’ll both lose in the end.

If my broken pieces could make you whole, than at least my breaking would be worth it.

I build a world inside you I shattered when you left and took it with you.

In a final Act of self preservation, I cut you out of my life.

Truth- I am broken. Dare- Love me anyway.

Maybe the universe breaks people in different ways so they fit when they are together.

The embers of us no longer keep me warm. But they still set fire to everything they touch.