for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.

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

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked.