One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

If I didn't have Lincoln's butt to stare at the whole time, motivation would be a lot harder to come by.

Chloe said the first thing that popped into her head., "I don't sleep with dead guys..."Luca gave her an amused look. "Good. I'm not dead. Never have been.... I'm immortal.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Eventually, the nerds and the geeks will have their day.

So much of parenting is following your instincts, and taking the time to actually know your child.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.