I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.

Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

I don't understand the mechanics behind things, so a site that I find impressive may not really be more technologically advanced than something which is ostensibly uninteresting.

What I find amazing is how sometimes ideas will just click, seemingly without effort.

If you neglect your blogs they don't take up much time.

What I will not do is continue to perpetuate stereotypes. I'm the daughter of a maid why do I have to also play a maid? My mom was a maid so I didn't have to be a maid.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

I wish that I was dead. Oh, they'll be sorry then. I hate them and I'll kill myself tomorrow. I want to die. I hate them, hate them. Hate.