I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

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

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

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? "