Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

I never say 'No' to anything.

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I'd found in an attic, saying, "I am a beautiful princess!" What my parents thought of this, I don't know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

All America is much the same.