Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?

God probably thinks it’s worth giving a sense of humor only to those of us who have to laugh at all the rubbish bits that are wrong with us.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?'

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

When you can give up approval and appreciation seeking behaviors, then you will become true to yourself and the universe.

I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

I know many fine feathered friends But their friendliness depends on how you do They know many sure fired ways, To find out the one who pays And how you do

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.