I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.