Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

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 to be adroit and also patient to make others agree to your terms.

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

I pay ZERO attention to what you say. But your actions have my undivided attention.

The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system.

If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

If you think you will get something from practicing zazen, already you are involved in impure practice.