When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

Well, there's no other person like me. Ain't nobody else like me. It's flattering. I don't like to do it too much because I get tired of me. But people ask, so I get to do it every now and then.

I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.

I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

You're not completely alone, you have me! Even if the entire world turns its back on you, you'll still be the strongest as long as you have me!

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.

The eyes are the true reflection of a man's age and sensibilities.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.

Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.