I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.