If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

people in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it.

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

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.