You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)

I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.