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.

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

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

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 always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody.