Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?