I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.

The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

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.

Men They hail you as their morning star Because you are the way you are. If you return the sentiment, They'll try to make you different; And once they have you, safe and sound, They want to change you all around. Your moods and ways they put a curse on; They'd make of you another person. They cannot let you go your gait; They influence and educate. They'd alter all that they admired. They make me sick, they make me tired.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.