Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Kids lead a very private life.

I realized that so many clever people respect fashion so much.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.