Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.
Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.
The Wilmington, Delaware, television station that bills itself as The Family Minded Station is Channel 69.