Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.