Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?