In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

I look forward and see myself look back.