My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

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

The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity [Wellesley] stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word. How marvelous it would have been to go to a women's college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.

I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then there was my screenwriting phase, then I became a director, then I started doing some plays.