When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

I have to do two things at once or I get tired.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.