I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

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

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?