I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

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

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.