I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s... in the '70s it's getting simpler.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.