I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

You teach your 16-year-old with your heart in your mouth to be a good driver and none of that makes any difference when some drunk comes around a corner and runs a stop sign.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.