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

Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.

You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

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.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.