You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.