American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

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.

Are your goals backed by burning desire or are you giving the Universe mixed signals?

Time passes no matter what you do.

Do I look evil? I can't do evil. I can barely pull off dangerous.

Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Every organ in your body is connected to the one under your hat.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while.

Since Hollywood seems to be more interested in people wearing tights and using powers, there seems to be a fertile ground for movies about real human beings.

Everybody needs one essential friend.