I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

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

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

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.