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.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

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.