Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I’d never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was Pete Wolinsky, an unscrupulous private detect...
There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
The problem with real life is there’s no musical score. In movies, you know you’re in danger because there’s an ominous chord underlining the scene,
The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-hig...
She was right about one thing: the harm in the world is done by those who feel disenfranchised and abused. Contented people (as a rule) don't kite checks, rob banks, or kill their fellow citizens.
Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and no...
People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
One immutable law of travel is that one’s arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch.
Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint.
Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake.
My dear, acting out is not the point because then the game would end. If I gave up the hope of reprisal, I'd forfeit the anger, which is better than pain.
Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don’t always recognize and can’t always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.
Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn’t come until later.
Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.
It's like people think just because you go to church you're not all that bright. I mean just because I'm a born-again doesn't mean I lost IQ points.
It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.
I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
Whenever Jehovah’s Witnesses appear at my door, I always ask for their addresses first thing, assuring them that I’ll be around later in the week to plague them with my views. While