It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.

I had that feeling you have when you're watching a sad movie, sobbing at the heartbreak you are feeling at the same time that you know the heartbreak isn't exactly real, that it will be gone by the time you get home and make a cup of tea. I found a lot of life like that when I was younger, as though I was practicing for what came later.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

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