Rupert Holmes

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

It’s a sad truism that those who appear affluent often evade the scrutiny of law enforcement.

It was absolutely the worst way she could have phrased it, as if her voice had been hijacked by what Edgar Allan Poe called the Imp of the Perverse.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls. Ask who would mourn in hearing it. If answer comes there none, then more power to you (especially if you are planning an electrocution.)

I'm sure there is such a thing as love at first sight, although I suspect many people recall it more in retrospect than experience it in their initial encounter. But I do believe in seeing someone in a different light for a first time, suddenly realizing that this person you've been passing in the hall for months is someone you might be prepared to share your life with, even though the previous day you'd barely given them a thought, or at least a conscious one.

Sadly, lessons taught by that cruel mentor Failure are often the most bitterly learned and vividly remembered.

[Dean Harbinger Harrow]

I'm afraid I was buried in thought.
Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave.

Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire.

May the only justice you face be poetic.

Students also learned that a person is more likely to have a lethal accident in their bathroom tan a commercial flight, causing Chubby Terhune to believe that the bathroom on an airplane must be the most dangerous place in the universe.

answer comes there none, then more power to you (especially if you are planning an electrocution).

In the billions of years during which Life — an indispensable ingredient to Homicide — has been teeming on this earth, from that momentous primordial dawn when one bold amoeba set foot on land with the intent of becoming either a chicken or an egg, it was understandable that the strong would have dominion over the weak. But in recent millennia, flying in the face of Darwinian precepts, we have evolved into a planet where the un-fittest not only survive but often flourish, holding sway over their betters in a social order where dim-witted, dim-watted employers all too often lord it over their considerably brighter subjects. We at McMasters call this perversion of nature’s intent “the devaluation of the species,” and no modern pestilence is more pernicious in our overview than the Sadistic Boss. It is with pride that McMasters offers a powerful helping hand (or leg up) to those under the thumb (or heel) of such oppressors.

After all, it’s difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.

I was told that where poker faces were concerned, mine was about as inscrutable as an “Eat At Joe’s” sign outside a diner called Joe’s.

nothing beats a couple of really stiff banana daiquiris enriched with yogurt. The bananas have tryptophan and magnesium to make your target dozy and potassium to keep them that way. The yogurt delivers melatonin, tryptophan, and calcium, and to seal the deal, they make a 168-proof rum in Barbados that might as well be knockout drops.