You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.