The keys that unlock the heart are made of funny materials: a disarming phrase that comes out of the blue, nowhere, a certain sexy walk that sends you reeling, the way someone hums when she is alone. My father said it was the way my mother danced with him.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Everything you want in life has teeth.

Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.