All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

... 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.