One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth and Darcy had a fight over how to treat the servants!

So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are deeply ingrained, not just in society but in literature. The women's movement may manage to clean up the mess in society, but I don't know whether it can ever clean up the mess in our minds.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.