Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.

The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.