Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

How embarrassing it is to be human.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.