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

You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

All that means is that it wasn't personal to you. But it was personal to me.