People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

"Can't sleep with a dead man in my closet." "You killed someone?" asked Ben with interest.

Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.

I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.

People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.

His voice was soft and sweet as molasses; but my mother once told me that you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.