Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a brilliant smile, a brilliant day, both literally and figuratively.
It's the witching hour once more- When the Muse comes out to play. He calls me through that magic door- Where galaxies of worlds await!
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
There is no evidence that more regulation makes things better. The most highly regulated industry in America is commercial banking, and that didn't save those institutions from making terrible decisions.
I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.
Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when I'm on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.
A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.
Black as night and as beautiful as forever.
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.
Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.
No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.
The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.
