People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.

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.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.