I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.

If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'