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Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

What if food really was love and world peace could be a reality?

Creighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.

There's profit in law enforcement?" "I was thinking spiritually." -

does Ms. Garcia hang

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.

In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

Maybe still waters did run deep. Or God on your side was the ultimate soul balm.

Most people aren't overly afflicted with curiosity. It separates the creative and the tormented from the rest of the pack. -

Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker.

atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle.

Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

Here I come, victims of the world. God help all of us.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am ...

If you couldn't get the outcome you wanted, torture 'em with process.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Truth and logic could serve as springboards for psychosis.

A second mouth, grinning across his neck.

He's a minister. Seems nice.

Tonight, the choice was obvious.

chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes

The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.

That was the thing about knowing people's secrets: It could make them not like you.

Sometimes it was funny - the passion he put into each new phase.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.

Made out a shape at the other end of the greenhouse,

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit ... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!

bosh," he finally said. "Ook-la. Palm trees

Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there.

Grinding his jaws. Barb snapped, "Over and done, put a fork in it." Stan

He was like one of those dog breeds that needs to work.

The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature.

booth. The other two women face them.

Do I think you're a sucker for her? I'd term it emotionally susceptible and yeah, you sure are.

Than the first, so you could have a fairly recent crime. But that could also

It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and

She'd heard he was some sort of karate honcho, occasionally

Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials.

-Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.

Others declare good intentions

Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.

opens it." "So what're you

They say you don't grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I'd prefer to be immature.

Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.

Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow.

Maybe we're just prisoners of our biology.

Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.

Literally and figuratively. Balance is important to you

It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.

except sociopaths trying to sell me term insurance, home security, and lawn care.

-a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.
The Butcher's Theater

If dust was present, it was hiding in fear.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

He sat down and said, "Thank you.

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us ... but they're still fucking psychopaths.

Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.

But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.

Sleep. The ultimate resistance

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.