The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

That's what's great about life, ... You don't have to keep doing things you did in your 30s. Besides it's not really a good look being in a club when you're 46 years old. The people in the clubs could be your children.

You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago.

No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they say they are.

[Ms. Bushnell, whose work has always been informed by the goings-on in her personal life, said that in recent years she and her friends were having conversations about more than men, Manolos and martinis.] When we get together we're not really talking about sex and relationships, ... We're talking about work and career.