My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.

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

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.