I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

The woman who respects the needs of her body will junk the junk food.

Rituals are important. I get up. I take the dogs on a walk around to the front and then I pick up the papers. Then I walk around to the front door, then me and the two dogs come in the house and I give them treats. I make coffee. It's the regularity of these kinds of rituals that I find deeply satisfying.

I always tried, in the books I wrote, to make it clear: Thin is not the goal. But I was thin. So no matter what I said, the subliminal message was, "You have to look a certain way." And I'm not happy about playing into that.

Drink water between meals instead of with them so that the digestive juices will not be diluted.

Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.