"Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it."
- Sue Grafton
"Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process."
"I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two."
"It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed."
"Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves."
"You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy..."
"Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you s..."
"I love being single. It's almost like being rich."
"So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our..."
"nothing wrong with a lie or two when the situation demanded it"