Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
If I'm at a party where I'm not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologising for our families.
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
If this typewriter can't do it, then f*** it, it can't be done.
A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than I did the sun for shining on me.
Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.