There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

The slowest kiss makes too much haste.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.

Young men think old men fools and old men know young men to be so.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."

You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.

At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to.