Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.