... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously. So what we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match. - Sleepless in Seattle

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

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

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.