Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

The Thanksgiving meal should not be treated as a grad school exam or an Olympic dive. Whatever you cook will be good enough - unless you make that Twinkie turkey stuffing we're suddenly hearing too much about.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s.

When you're thinking, "Why do I have to eat Aunt Sue's casserole with potato chips crumbled on top again?" change that thought to "A couple of bites won't kill me."

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

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.