If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

Love is above all else the gift of oneself.

Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.