I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.