A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.