I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.