By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.

See-through goes with everything.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart

My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

There is no tears without joy; there is no joy without tears.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.