You don't really have to believe what you write in a blog for more than the moment when you're writing it. You don't bring the same solemnity that you would bring to an actual essay.

Believe me, if I looked good, it's not an accident.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

I'll have what she's having

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

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

There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.