The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don’t say.
Maybe it was because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.
We all have our demon. But men? They have them much worse. The world tells them that they are the leaders and great and macho and have to be big and brave and make a lot of money and lead these glamor...
The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.
The secret in any interview was the ability to not fill the silence. A few seconds passed.
The Newark train station is about as romantic as a pile of hippo dung with head lice.
Survival is the thing. The mind will twist to survive. Anything can become normal.
Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up. Ray Levine was one of those people.
She wore a killer smile, absolutely devastating. It was a smile that could twist a man’s heart. A man could fall in love just being on the receiving end of that smile. A man would want to see the smil...
Sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it ri...
Relationships and marriages are hard enough, but you add war into the mix and small fissures become gaping wounds. No one sees what you’re seeing—again that clear-eyed, unbiased thing—except your fell...
Oh. I take it from your tone that the custody battle is not going well. Tom has an in with the judge. A golfing buddy, believe it or not. You can’t get a venue change? My attorney says no. Guess what...
Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.
It was one lesson he never forgot. You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted. And you don't act like the goverment with their proportional responses and all that nonsense. If someo...
Intuition was often a way of cutting corners, a nifty technique of replacing hard evidence and facts with something far more elusive and capricious. The worst investigators Carlson knew relied on so-c...
If you want to experience love, then you have to be ready for pain. One doesn’t come without the other. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t have to worry about losing you. If you want laughter, expect te...
I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the pr...
I can be over in ten minutes. You’ll stay for dinner? Depends on what’s on the tape, I say. Right, yeah, that makes sense. Ellie hears something in my voice and knows me too well. Everything else okay...
Her voice was polished with a hint of a New England-boarding-school accent that shouted refinement over geographic locale. I was trying not to stare. She saw that and smiled a little. I don't want to...