Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.