Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.