They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

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

A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.

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.

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