When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

He was big, that Sid. He was a force, a character, and I wondered fleetingly if Sally and I would ever seem as big to our offspring as Sid had seemed to us.

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

Since when, " he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

There was no gentle way around it - hearts would be broken, relationships would be crushed and I was the messenger.

Pride comes from looking only at ourselves

Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?

You are down in the valley and the valley is filled with smog. You can't see too well. When we meditate, we are going beyond the smog to the top of the mountain.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.