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.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

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.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

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