... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.