So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.