New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

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

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

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

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.