No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happened to me?

The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

We all know how to be a child.