I'm a lousy journalist.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

My abiding theme is separations.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

I love the simplicity of Kevin Spacey's work. He really does a subtle interpretation of every character, and that's kind of my style of acting when it comes to dramatic roles.

I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.

I go from being in front of 2,000 people, shot-gunning beers on stage and acting like a complete idiot, to being in a Mommy and Me class, waving a little pink handkerchief around 12 hours later!

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

The media cause more problems than they do good.

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.