Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.