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My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

There's nothinng like an outsider's idle glance to make you conscious of your own environment.

He opened his coat to reveal his badge, but I confess I didn't peer closely enough to commit the number to memory. This

To distract myself, I thought about all the cusswords I knew and arranged them in alphabetical order.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?

Grief is an illness I can't recover from.

The space smelled

He stared at me. His breathing made that wheezing sound that fat people sometimes make.

It's not that gray water's boring, but the subject does have its limits.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.

People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.

I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

All you have to do is wait until she's asleep

wrote him off the day he left and so did Ellen and

Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn't come until later.

People get careless when they're feeling safe.

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

Unplug yourself often and you risk losing touch with your feelings altogether.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Give yourself time to get better.

Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.

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On the way home, I stopped at the market and stocked

Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

What was done was done.

The world is full of talented people.

I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Poise and indifference so often look the same.

I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.

The tricky part of any lie is trying to figure out how you'd behave if you were innocent.

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss.

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Dream big but think small.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene,

I only get writer's block about once a day.

It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.

Any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

I don't know much about the Presbyterian faith, but the atmosphere alone was enough to put me off predestination.

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

You can't make someone else do anything, even if you know you're right.

All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.

There's always something else. That's what makes life so much fun.

The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.

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We all do things we regret. It's part of growing up.

You never know which people will affect your life.

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

Why is it that other people's plans so often seem ill thought out while our own make so much sense? I

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

I tend to place kids in a class with dogs, preferring the quiet, the smart, and the well trained.

If you're unhappy, change something.

Being rule governed, I operate in a world filled with imaginary restraints.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

I like lines, I earn mine.

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.

You can believe anything you like.

No one with a happy childhood ever amounts to much in this world. They are so well adjusted, they never are driven to achieve anything.

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.

The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

The struggle is what teaches you.

If love is what injures us, how can we heal?

thinks he either kept it in his desk drawer at work or in the glove compartment of his car." Odessa

Maybe life is just a straight shot from the horrors of grade school to the horrors of the nursing home.

How can you trust someone who doesn't bother to spell correctly or can't manage to lay out a simple declarative sentence?

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

its embrace. The sky still claims them and we who honor them will hold them dear from this day forward.

Four. I checked the other side

linen slipcovers, was as white as whole milk.

Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.

I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

People can hold out just so long and then they fold.

It's fun to horse around with danger.

Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law.

We understood the consequences of any given action, we could exercise discretion, thus restructuring our fate.