Familiarity breeds democracry.

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I hadn't known that before; I thought I was just short.

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

God may have loved the common people, but a trip to any shopping mall suggests that He made far too many of them.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

To be happy, think about happiness, and see happiness and beauty in every little thing.

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

I'm a darned good listener.

I believe in privacy, I believe that people especially when it comes to private emails, personal emails, et cetera, I think people have a right to that privacy.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

I often wish that folks would use Twitter for something more than sharing quotes

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.