Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.

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

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

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

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!