In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American.