"I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own."
~ Margaret Atwood

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the `Titanic` who waved off the dessert cart."
~ Erma Bombeck

"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window."
~ Alice Munro

"The difficulty with love is that it has been contaminated with the soupiness of romance."
~ David Starkey