Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.