Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.
For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.
Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.
In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.
Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.
It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.
You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.
However, in my fiction, I want to give an even further warning of where we're heading. And so, in "Heartland," you have people selling off their topsoil, and an underwater oil spill that has lasted over three-hundred days.
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.