I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

With Weasel and Arisa at his side, anything was possible. Anything.

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse.

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

We already have immigration law, and it is being violated. Obama's executive amnesty is not the settled law. [Barak ] Obama's executive amnesty is outside the law, and that's why it's been stayed.

Some people in England only have their wheelie bins collected once a fortnight. Their suffering is unimaginable.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.