if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car?

Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor! This is not only a bar too low, this is no bar at all. I don't care who you are, you know 20 people smarter than Ronald Reagan. You know 20 people who would be a better president than Ronald Reagan.

For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.