Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

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

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

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.