Even when America is not working that well, it still works better than other places.

If in addition to being physically unattractive you find that you do not get along well with others, do not under any circumstances attempt to alleviate this situation by developing an interesting personality. An interesting personality, is, in an adult, insufferable. In a teenager it is frequently punishable by law.

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.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

I could not possibly be in a relationship now for more than six days. When I was younger, I might have said six months, although I think the longest relationship I was ever in was three years.