In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?

In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

When Nancy Reagan was newly the first lady of California, Joan Didion came and had an hour-long interview. She thought it went great, and then Joan Didion just eviscerated her in the most - possibly not inaccurate - but in the most devastating way.

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet.

What was really great with Eleanor Roosevelt - I mean, of course, we all have this stereotypical, really satirical almost, version of how she speaks. What was really interesting to me was I found various radio and TV appearances of hers, but there was one talk show that I saw her on; she was the only woman, it was all men. They were talking about policy - I think it was after she was First Lady. I think it was more in the U.N. days.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.