The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

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.