Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic w….

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida..

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from..

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God..

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better….

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth..

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and shelt….

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriage….

Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to lea….

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there….

Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes its exit, for it leaves be….

I should coldly, clinically think of myself and stop worrying about other people, as though I'm a necessary woman, indispensable to their happiness a….

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less th….

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover..

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes..

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter..