Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

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.

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

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.