David Alan Royster

Give the love that you pray for; someone’s been praying to have it.

I’d tell you how beautiful you look today, but there’s not enough time before sunset to tell how you set fire to a sundress; my mouth is overflowing from yesterday.

There’s nothing more romantic than getting down in the dirt and plowing through the weeds, brambles, thickets, and dry land of life with someone just as willing by your side.

Sometimes I feel like a kid wanting nothing more than to squeeze you tight and call you mine.

I have you in one world, but I need you in two: the hands and the heart, just one won’t do.

And somewhere in my time with you, the crickets emerged as birds and the blackened hills found their hue. My eyes fell on you; I didn’t watch the sun move, but I felt the world turn all night.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, take the calculated risk, and take action!

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

We don’t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Think about all of the times, situations, and circumstances where you have gotten caught up in making your self right rather than happy… The harder you fight to win, the bigger you lose.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.