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?

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.