People Have Only One Way

From The Essay "twenty-five Things People Have A Shocking Capacity To Be Surprised By Over And Over Again" 1. Journalists Sometimes Make Things Up. 2. Journalists Sometimes Get Things Wrong. 3. Almost All Books That Are Published As Memoirs Were Initially Written As Novels, And Then The Agent/editor Said, This Might Work Better As A Memoir. 6. Freedom Of The Press Belongs To The Man Who Owns One.

[on The Screenplay For "when Harry Met Sally"] It Struck Me That The Movies Had Spent More Than Half A Century Saying, "they Lived Happily Ever After" And The Following Quarter Century Warning That They'll Be Lucky To Make It Through The Weekend. Possibly Now We Are Now Entering A Third Era In Which The Movies Will Be Sounding A Note Of Cautious Optimism: You Know, It Just Might Work.

You Can Blame Al Gore And You Can Blame Ralph Nader And You Can Blame George Bush, But I Blame Bill [clinton]. I Just Do. I Just Think He Squandered His Presidency The Night That Woman Delivered That Pizza To Him, And If He Hadn't, We Wouldn't Be Where We Are And There Would Be A Lot Of People Who Are Alive Today Who Aren't.

Maybe Young Women Don't Wonder Whether They Can Have It All Any Longer, But In Case Any Of You Are Wondering, Of Course You Can Have It All. It Will Be A Little Messy, But Embrace The Mess. It Will Be Complicated, But Rejoice In The Complications. It Will Not Be Anything Like What You Think It Will Be Like, But Surprises Are Good For You. And Don't Be Frightened: You Can Always Change Your Mind. I Know: I've Had Four Careers And Three Husbands.

I Live In New York City. I Could Never Live Anywhere Else. The Events Of September 11 Forced Me To Confront The Fact That No Matter What, I Live Here And Always Will. One Of My Favorite Things About New York Is That You Can Pick Up The Phone And Order Anything And Someone Will Deliver It To You. Once I Lived For A Year In Another City, And Almost Every Waking Hour Of My Life Was Spent Going To Stores, Buying Things, Loading Them Into The Car, Bringing Them Home, Unloading Them, And Carrying Them Into The House. How Anyone Gets Anything Done In These Places Is A Mystery To Me.