Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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.