I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

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.

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

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.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

The inner imaginary universe of the human primate is the battlefield of the ages

But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.