You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can't put things off thinking you'll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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

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!

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.