I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.

My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth.

... the most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.

Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.