[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

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

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

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