As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

Parents often give middle names just so that later, when they're yelling at the kid, they can drag it out. Henry David Thoreau, you come in here this instant!

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

When you get busy, the priorities change. In your twenties, you hang out with who you were in school with. Then you grow up and you hang out with the people you're playing ball with, things you like doing with. When you get married, it changes a bit and you lose some friends, or you gain other friends. You gain couple-y friends. It changes again when you have children, and then when your children are the focus of your life.

Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.