I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

I really feel like I'm a liberal because I'm a Catholic, because I took the words of the New Testament to heart.