I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.