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

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.

I actually believe in denial.

No one is more romantic than a cynic. I do think that you don't become cynical or 'unsentimental' unless there's a core of romanticism or sentiment that's had a few chips nicked into it.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.