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.

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

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.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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 don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.