One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.