Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Love is the wild card of existence.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.