I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
As Harry puts it, men and women can never be friends because 'the sex part always gets in the way.
The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful bookis one of the main reasons I read;but it doesn't happen every timeor even every other time,and when it does happen,
You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins.
When I first met him, he had a recurrent nightmare that Henry Kissinger was chasing him with a knife, and I said it was really his father, and he said it was really Henry Kissinger, and I said it was...
We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don’t quite believe it.
SALLY Harry, I can’t do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.
Meanwhile, every so often, your children come to visit. They are, amazingly, completely charming people. You can’t believe you’re lucky enough to know them. They make you laugh. They make you proud. Y...
Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me...
[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food busine...
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.
Whenever you give up an apartment in New York and move to another city, New York turns into the worst version of itself. Someone I know once wisely said that the expression It's a nice place to visit,...
Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.
I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.- on losing her best f...
You fall in love with someone, and part of what you love about him are the differences between you; and then you get married and the differences start to drive you crazy.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. R...
It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tente...
I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable...
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
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 stock, ! It’s a sure thing! It’s sure thing in a wor...