“Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.”

“Wear reality with grace, the alternative is awful.”

“Honest communication is open, healing new and old wounds.”

“Enjoy fantasy for what it is, fantastic! Not for what it might be.”

“Personal truth sets me free from fear for self. And Love is freedom from fear.”

“Give me chastity and constancy, but not yet." St. Augustine. "Amen" Odette”

“On romance books: We might assume then that men, major consumers of thrillers, westerns, and detective fiction, enjoy being beaten up, tortured, shot, stabbed, dragged by galloping horses, and thrown out of moving vehicles.”