READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

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.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.