The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.