“Listen. Just because we got a mutual hankering, doesn’t mean we have to act on it. Aside from the hankering, there isn’t much about you that I like. So far, you’ve been a pain in the behind. And I might as well tell you, I’ve followed through on one hankering and getting shot was more of an enjoyable experience. I didn’t like it.”

“WEST SALEM ~ October 2011A sudden vision, fraught with malevolence and darkness, obscured her sight. The face of a menacing figure turned from the shadows of his grisly handiwork and stared at Sorcha.Her muscles tensed. By the Goddess, could he see her?Please! No!She wanted to scream, to run, but the vision ensnared her into the horrific moment like a fly in a spider’s web.”

“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.”

“When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.”

“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.”

“In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.”

“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.”

“…No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?”

“Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.”

“We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.”

“In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.”

“…a writer, like most artists, needs a partner who can act as the fuel to his artistic mind and soul, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.”

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.”

“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows. The job of the singer, actor or artists ,in general, is to make us comfortable with our feelings or emotions―be it pain, hurt, anger, hatred, sadness, pleasure, love, cheerfulness or joy.”

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.”