The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.