There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

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.

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

I’m willing to be under anything, she said, as long as it isn’t somebody’s thumb.

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

The last time I’d spoken French I was twelve years old

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.

I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.

I would challenge any American cook, regardless of what they've learned from their mom, to operate a restaurant and not have spent any real time in Italy.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.