What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!

The hardest thing about writing is writing.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Everybody dies. There’s nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there’s no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there’s a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don’t happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, “Everything happens for a reason,” I would like to smack her.)

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