Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.

No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.

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.

You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

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.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

To me, the main difference between young people now and the people I was young with isn't so much style, it's the relationships they have with their parents. Their parents like them much more than ours liked us. Our parents weren't our friends. But now I see my friends on the phones with their, what, 30 - year - old kids? And they're talking about feelings.