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

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

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.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

If you're unhappy, change something.

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

My second husband and I were going through a bitter divorce, and I didn't have the money for a fancy-pants attorney. I didn't know how to fight, so I'd lie awake at night and think of ways to kill him. But I knew I'd get caught, so I decided to put it in a book and get paid for it! I always think it's odd that a whole career came out of that homicidal impulse.