One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.