Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.

Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.