Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape