It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.

In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.