There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

when you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.

You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.