Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.