All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

It's an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you're a five-year-old, you don't pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.

I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.