Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

I am a very discreet human when it comes to other people.