So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

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

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.