I'm going to do less performing because I'm tired. It's hard to convince anybody that you're just going to take it easy.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

Life’s good when it’s lived for oneself

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Things well fitted abide.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

My doctor said, for want of a better word, now that we've got medicines out here that can help, let's put you on one of them and say we're treating MS.