If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.