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

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.

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.

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Read not for the facts but for the angles of thinking.

I had support - I had started it, not to forget.