One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

I am from a middle-class family, and everything I have achieved in life I have only appreciated. I have never gone overboard because I have seen the other side of life. When you have seen the other side of life, you appreciate what you have.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I've always been the one who is more enthusiastic about Christmas than my family. I regress to a child state, chanting carols.

The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store.