Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

I'm an enormous product of my century, I'm a product of my upbringing. I was not aware of the fact that I was entering marriage with the highest set of expectations that humans have ever brought to the institution. It was really good to find that out. It doesn't have to be the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the moon and the stars - it can just be the moon. It's enough that it just can be what it is.

I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.