Death by creaming

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Even writers need relief from words.

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.