There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.
If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.
Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off.
What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.
Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.
I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.