I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

You're all here. Mixed in a bit with some of my cells. May have to redefine our relationship after this.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.