Getting Older Means You Don't

I Always Say That A Successful Parent Is One Who Raises A Child So That They Can Pay For Their Own Psychoanalysis.

No One Is More Romantic Than A Cynic. I Do Think That You Don't Become Cynical Or 'unsentimental' Unless There's A Core Of Romanticism Or Sentiment That's Had A Few Chips Nicked Into It.

We Have A Game We Play When We’re Waiting For Tables In Restaurants, Where You Have To Write The Five Things That Describe Yourself On A Piece Of Paper. When I Was [in My Twenties], I Would Have Put: Ambitious, Wellesley Graduate, Daughter, Democrat, Single. Ten Years Later Not One Of Those Five Things Turned Up On My List. I Was: Journalist, Feminist, New Yorker, Divorced, Funny. Today Not One Of Those Five Things Turns Up In My List: Writer, Director, Mother, Sister, Happy.

People In New Orleans Really Care About Food, Care About It Passionately, Can Spend Hours Arguing Over Whether Antoine's Is Better Than Galatoire's Or The Other Way Around ... In New Orleans, There Is Basically Nothing To Do But Eat And Then Argue About It.

I Know That I Am Essentially A Sort Of Fun-loving Person Who Really Just Wants To Sit Around And Eat Pies.