I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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

There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.