When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.