The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

The real reason women fall in love abroad is not that they are free of domestic inhibitions but that they translate their love of stone and place into love of flesh. ... Is this true?

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.