"My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles."

"I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring."

"I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph."

"I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory."

"Age merely shows what children we remain."

"One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty."

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years."

"Every summit scaled was once thought insurmountable from the valley below. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."