I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

my mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source.

To decide to quit on yourself, is to be willing to settle for the pain that comes with every big regret.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Good stories never wear out, re-gift a book!

If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

I hold Angela Merkel in high regard.

Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.