Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?

I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.

I’m fading, Bethany, I know it. I think that’s what happened to my dad, that’s why I can’t see him. One day I’ll be so see-through that you’ll forget I was ever here, just like everyone else has.

She grinned, a silty grin. 'You were my two dividends, yes? Don't you forget that.'Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, 'But what an investment. My life.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be

There's no tyrant like a brain.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

We wonder of the nature and the nature wonders of us!