Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

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The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

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Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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