Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don't like what they don't like and, in contrast, those who don't like what they don't like more than they like what they like.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.