Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.