[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.
Language is a nice way to remember things.
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriendspousepartner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.
People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.
There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.
Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose.