When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.