This little girl's grown up by now, " she said.Almost.Not quite.I wish you all a long and happy life.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

Nothing is ever certain.

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

[On being told party guests were ducking for apples:] There, but for a typographical error, is the story of my life.

I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying to write a little bit most evenings just to keep the creative juices flowing.

The Führer is always quite cheerful, cheerful with all his heart, when he is having tea with his friends during the night, or when he is training his dogs!

The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.