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.

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

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.

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.

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

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).