You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.