Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.

The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.