Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.