The empty nest is underrated.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

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

You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion.

I'll have what she's having

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.

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