Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point.

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparable, his lofty judgments and general scorn of other writers - not all of them, of course.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Savoury food is for main course, and fruit is for pudding.

Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.