New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many - even more - things objectionable. I do not like aftershave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up signs.

I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.