Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.