A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.