I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting.

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirruping.

Futility is in the eye of the beholder.

Nevertheless, I gave Gypsy Mummy a quarter, and she presented to us the message that Johnny and his fiancée had hoped to receive: YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER.

In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see.

The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.