Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.