I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

That I am totally devoid of sympathy for, or interest in, the world of groups is directly attributable to the fact that my two greatest needs and desires - smoking cigarettes and plotting revenge - are basically solitary pursuits.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

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.