Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.