I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

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