When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

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

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.