It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

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

I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

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

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.