We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.

A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.