The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.Collection: Party
Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.Collection: War
The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.Collection: Mistake
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.Collection: Age
Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.Collection: Funny Love
I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.Collection: Marriage
There can be no great love without exclusivity.Collection: Great Love
a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.Collection: Marriage
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.Collection: Different
I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.Collection: Lying
You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.Collection: Mean
it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.Collection: Hate
when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.Collection: Marriage