Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

When you have self-respect, you have enough.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.