Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void. - You've Got Mail

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

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

in a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.