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.

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

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

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

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.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

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.