Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Home is where your books are.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.