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I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

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

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.

I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Period.

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

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

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

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

If your husband is cheating on you with a carhop, get Meryl Streep to play you. You'll feel much better.

Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Having been married so many times, I know that one of the few things I am an expert in is falling in love.

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

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

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

I just want to go on making movies, and some of them will be completely meaningless, except, of course, to me.

Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

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

All I do when I write scripts is think about food: 'Have I worked long enough to justify a walk to the kitchen?'

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

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

Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

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

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

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.

Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.

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