As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

... 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 you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

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.