When you feel that the people you are dealing with day to day don't have manners, it gives you the feeling that the world is somehow coming apart. It makes you feel that everything is out of control.

Everywhere I know of, people complain about the decline in manners.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.

Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.