in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

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

It's so interesting that we think we know the rules to this game, this total hypothetical game called, "Would you," "If you had it to do over." It's not out there.

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.