Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.

Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught.

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.