My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you?

Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl.

You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work.

Madness, ' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?

Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

I encourage you to stop saying, "I just want to look not so bad" and instead say, "I want to look fabulous."

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.