This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

My inside self and my outside self used to match. A compass needle pointed true north. Now the needle spins around and around indicating the sad direction of nowhere.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children; that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.