I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.