I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female humorist, and I never was one myself. I couldn't do it. A "smartcracker" they called me, and that makes me sick and unhappy. There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

I can’t write five words but that I change seven.

There are times when images blow to fluff, and comparisons stiffen and shrivel.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

People are more than fun than anybody.