Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.

Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.