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There can be no great love without exclusivity.
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The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.
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I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.
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You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.
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It seems strange that everyone I'm writing about was very famous.... Didn't I ever find anyone interesting who was not famous? Actually, no, I didn't.
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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
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I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.
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A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.
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It was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.
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When you speak of other people's marriages, you are, of course, saying something about your own.
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Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.
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Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
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The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
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Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.