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 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.

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

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

The greatest choices are great love, great life and great deeds.

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.

Nobody warned me that when you fall in love, you really fall in love forever.

It's easier for me if I'm just open and transparent to a point.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride