The hardest thing about writing is writing..

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting..

... 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 ….

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these b….

I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go ….

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies..

Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a particip….

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands..

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape..

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's grea….

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save you….

Vera said: 'Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because….

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot s….

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine..

And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it — it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to e….

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever..

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gainin….

The last four years of psychoanalysis are a waste of money..

The empty nest is underrated..

Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way….

The realization that I may have only a few good yeras remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would li….