I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

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

The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

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