In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to be the case, it is not at all likely that the cabin is entirely inhabited by crying babies smoking inexpensive domestic cigars.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.

American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.

When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree.