[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it.

Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.