Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it