It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.