I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

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.

It takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.