you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.