I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

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.

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.

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.