Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

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.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

My travels and everything that I do where travel has inspired and influenced not only the cooking that I do but also the restaurants that I create.

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.