American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

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

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

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

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

From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2. Journalists sometimes get things wrong. 3. Almost all books that are published as memoirs were initially written as novels, and then the agent/editor said, This might work better as a memoir. 6. Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.