Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

I used to loathe ambivalence now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child, " I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

The thing about working on a TV show is that it becomes, very quickly, all consuming.

I like thick or middle (spaghetti). Thin for me is always overcooked by the time I'm eating it.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.