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
Vegas tends to affect me that way, some combination of tension and dread to which my body responds with all the symptoms of incipient flu.
Tragedy can turn your life around if you’re open to it.
These are the days that require discipline, when exercise is pure duty and the good feeling only comes later, consisting solely of self-congratulations for having done the job at all.
The practice of baring all, analyzing every nuance embedded in a quarrel, is a surefire way to keep an argument alive. Better to establish a temporary peace and revisit the conflict later. Often, by t...
The louder he proclaims his honesty, the faster we count the silver.
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.
Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.
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.
I'm not saying justice is for sale, but if you have enough money, you can sometimes enjoy the benefits of a short-term lease.
I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.
I like my life as it is.
He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
Get old, you might as well not worry about your dignity. Anybody talks about dignity for old folks has never been around one as far as I can tell. You can keep your spunk, but you have to give up your...
At heart, I've always been a pretty little moralist. Private investigation is just my way of acting out.
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Worry. For you, I prepare guisada de guilota . Wonderful. What’s that? Is quail braised in tomatillo-chili sauce.
We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.
Panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone)
My mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair.