I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, burst….

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..

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….

... 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 ….

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….

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….

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 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….

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked..

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here….

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what..

I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great….

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your na….

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with ….

Take notes. Everything is copy..

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape..

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

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible..

The hardest thing about writing is writing..

One of the great things about movies is that it's just that short period of time. It's a bubble. The last thing you want to know is that Elizabeth an….