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.

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.

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.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

You have to choose whether to go to a restless sleep or to stay awake and fight for a blissful night rest.

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

When we have our consciousness on needs, images come to us, naturally, of how to meet those needs.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.