I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.