My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next. |
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. |
My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. |
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) |
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it |
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. |
The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries |
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat |
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience. |
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter-albeit with less convenience. |
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love. |
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is "knowing what your uterus looks like." |
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. |
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us. |
When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. |