One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach

IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at the same time.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

Do you believe in love after last sight?

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.