When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.

Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

Never would I allow my size to define me. Instead I would define it.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

The only tension that gets my attention, is when I stick a fork too close to my silver filling.

If things are built on a poor foundation, there is absolutely nothing there”.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.

The people who know personal finance hide the money very carefully.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens