Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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 are called to do a certain work – do it

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I know enough football to know that's funny!

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.