The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Friends tell each other the truth, and then friends stick around for the aftermath.

Jeremy Renner is an incredible actor.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?” … “Not yet,” I say with a smile in my voice, “but I’m getting there.

I get and read an enormous number of first novels.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.