They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!