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.

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.

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.