Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like what they like more than they don't like what they don't like and, in contrast, those who don't like what they don't like more than they like what they like.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

I am constantly surprised that the simple word 'feminism' raises more eyebrows and initiates more sad-faced head-shaking than any elaborate stream of invective I have ever leveled at either the I.R.S. or the D.M.V.