What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don’t know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.
Believe me, if I looked good, it’s not an accident.
Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.
It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we’ve all read pieces where we thought, ‘Oh, who gives a damn.’
It’s always hard to remember love – years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don’t. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I’m not.
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
When you’re attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. – Sleepless in Seattle.
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.
Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.
What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
I don’t know why so much nonsense about age is written – although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.
In the way that women forget the pain of childbirth, men forget that they cry in movies.
Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it’s our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.
I think you often have that sense when you write – that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you’re free of it. And you’re not, of course; you’ve just managed to set it down on paper, that’s all.
Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.