Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

What's nice about the rain is you don't feel you have to live up to anything. Everything around you is so grey and wet and damp and dreary that you don't feel you have to smile and percolate as you do on a sunny spring day.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules. I didn't cause my son any pain. But I did bring to my life some of my father, who was very controlling and very remote. I was working a lot. I wasn't there enough.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.