Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

I'm not going to lie. I would definitely steal stuff from set.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.

There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together.'

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.