I asked my hairdresser what would look good on me. She says a Los Angeles Rams football helmet.
Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.
An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.
When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
I am very athletic, actually, and I'm good at most sports. But I was never a successful athlete, because I have a lot of trouble with authority. To be a good athlete, you have to have sort of a military attitude. You have to enjoy being coached, and that was not something I ever liked. But more than that, I don't like practice, and coaches hate anybody that doesn't like practice. If you saw me throwing a football, you'd say, "Wow, he knows how to throw a football. " But put me on a field, I'm not gonna stand out.
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.