These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

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

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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.

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy.