Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded [on 9/11]....We're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons. We have to do it, I guess, but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.

Walking is good for the soul.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.