“I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.”

“Everything's temporary...until it's not.”

“It's in a can. It's good forever.”

“I think we should wean Grandma.”

“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultle...”

“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the ...”

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would nev...”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”

“The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 oclock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didnt meet him on the golf course.”

“Dont stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.”

“Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Wilson or Brady?" The writing is on the ball...”