Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.