I don't know why so much nonsense about age is written - although I can certainly understand that no one really wants to read anything that says aging sucks.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

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.

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