Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.