The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.

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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.

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

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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, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

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Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

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I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

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

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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.

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

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Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

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