Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

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

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? "

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.