Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear.

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.

Everything has a reason, though it cannot always be deduced for we cannot see the full picture of a life at any point in time.

I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Recognising clichés is a sign of aging.

We are all in trouble.... with a bunch of dead people.

Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love. Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Truth travels slowly, but it will reach even you in time.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

Local politics matters a lot.