If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

The struggle is what teaches you.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.