Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

May all men experience the glorious presence of the Creator.

Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.

You love meand love me notyour love is an arm of clockjoining hands with mineonly to leave me again

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.

We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

If you dream and you believe, you can do it.