I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

What do I believe that I deserve in this life?

Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.