It is simplicity itself to fire one’s employer. All it takes is some kindling and a match. - Rupert Holmes

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.

And that, to me, embraces the very soul of the most important commandment you'll find anywhere in your Principles of Successful Termination: 'Do in others as you would have others do you in.

Ah well. In life, what’s important is to learn from your mistakes, to identify why others might have led you into making them, and to kill them.