He never lied to me. I just didn't ask the questions I didn't want to know the answers to.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Be independent, ad do what you will.

No shade no shine no butterflies no bees No fruits no flowers no leaves no birds November!

I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

When I saw the pictures of New York without the World Trade Center, New York looked like a shadow of itself.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.