Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing you'll ever have to do again.

The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.