“Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.”

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

“I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”

“A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.”

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. ”

“If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.”