Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

A restless vitality wells up as we approach 30.