"Slowly but surely I knew I was gone.
Now, as surely as I know that I have the voice of Maria Callas, I know that I have compassion.
As surely as I know that Paul the next-door neighbor does not subscribe to Verizon, I know he does not have a big black dog.
"I know as surely as I know anything that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, was somehow involved in the attack," he wrote in his book Danger Zones.
Surely I would know if I were in two places at once?
As surely as I knew I would marry, I knew I would be a dad.
And just as surely as I knew it would be shown a seventh time, I also knew what would come out from Showbiz Tonight host A.J. Hammer's mouth: "They should be ashamed of themselves".
Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
It sounds implausible, I know; surely the least we can ask of our therapists is that they should fail utterly to soothe the neuroses of their own relations.
Surely, after all these years I know the recipe by heart; surely I've passed some version of this recipe to my daughters, who now make their own haroset, often adding cashews, dates, cardamom, even cayenne for good measure.
