Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.