I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

I believe that I have such a vanilla life.

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

I don't mean to get all religious here, but I'm pretty sure key lime martinis (with a graham cracker & sugar rim) are proof that Jesus loves us.

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.

Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

The Bagshaw's blew up an armored truck one,' Gabrielle offered.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Every line, everything you do in life, should have a motive and a reason. Every one of us should have a motive and a reason, most of the time, to accomplish all the things that we want in life.