The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

To me, O'Hara is the real Fitzgerald.

They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar - a bar! - because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free "workspace." Ah, bartenders, those health nuts.

New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.

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.