Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom
Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, t...
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people...
No, we were still in the same room, both of us having to breathe and speak in the aftermath of her wink.
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to ev...
I seriously think he’s one of those dudes where, his whole life, he’s gotten credit for being smart and moral for no reason other than he’s tall. Anyway,
I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can’t imagine ever running out of things to say.
I am filled with gratitude at the astonishing fact of being married to someone I enjoy talking to, someone with whom I can't imagine running out of things to say.
For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head.
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.
Far in the future, Hannah will have a boyfriend named Mike with whom she'll talk about her father. She'll say she isn't sorry about her upbringing before the divorce, that she thinks in a lot of ways...
She was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.
You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?
When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?
There are, I have learned, so many gifts of motherhood, and so many sadnesses, and one of the sadnesses is the asymmetry of the family experience: that in spite of all the daily nuisances, and in spit...
There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things.
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what p...
She nodded, jotting something in her notebook.You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.