Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

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.

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.

[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind--you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell.