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….

Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it t….

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..

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….

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party..

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side..

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next..

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun..

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negoti….

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date..

Everybody I know who goes out and plays a little softball, they break their leg..

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am..

I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my journalistic phase, then….

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and mak….

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead..

I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it..

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation..

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?.

Maybe young women don't wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. It will ….

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive..