The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

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

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

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

I think 12-step programs really work, rehab really works, certain types of therapies and talking to other addicts really work. There are a lot of things that work - that isn't the problem. The problem is getting the addicts to say they're addicts. The problem is admitting it.

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