People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

There's a big difference between tolerance and approval, and I have no right to expect or demand the latter from anyone.

... there is a whole hell of a lot of knowledge about the (expletive removed) human condition that we are not ready for.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

The aurora of humanity will begin when we learn that love is our only power and kindness is our ineffable religion.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

I'm a fan of action movies.

So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.