When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

By the time he was done with the deer it had been dark three hours and his bad leg was singing 'Ave Maria'.

You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.

People who leave their drugs in a bathroom the guests use are just asking for trouble.

She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!