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Dream big but think small.
The struggle is what teaches you.
Give yourself time to get better.
Grief is as contagious as a yawn.
If you're unhappy, change something.
Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.
Happiness is seasonal, like anything else
grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Smile. It gives your face something to do.
I only get writer's block about once a day.
People get careless when they're feeling safe.
Poise and indifference so often look the same.
Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.
I love being single. It's almost like being rich.
If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
You never know which people will affect your life.
Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams?
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.
Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.
There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.
Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.
What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.
There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.
You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.
Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.
Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.
Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind.
To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
Sometimes I wonder what the difference is between being cautious and being dead.
Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.
Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.
When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.
Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.
Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.
You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.
My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.