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

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.

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.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.

Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I regret how much I believed in the future.

[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.