But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Mid-grade readers don't have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.

as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists and psychiatrists, from all of whom we want a second opinion. We want a second opinion that says, don't worry, you are going to live forever.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to be viewed as remarkable and rare, when we need to exhibit ourself in front of a mirror that reflects our self-admiration, when we need a parent to function as that mirror.

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.