Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

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 name and address.

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.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.