As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.