She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.

You're not going to fix things by helping 65-year-olds or 75-year-olds for any long run.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

When you're in bed, you're dead