Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by New York, I mean Manhattan. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. We didn't live well. We lived in these horrible places. But you could live in New York. And you didn't have to think about money every second.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

If there had been a job of being a reader, I would have taken that, because I love to read and I don't love to write. That would be blissful.

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