... everyone must play his role.

I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.