You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

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.

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.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.