Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

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

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.