“(Woman sitting by swimming pool) To me the most important quality in a kitchen is that it be in someone else's house, or in a restaurant.”

“Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.”

“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”

“Knowledge is not the most important thing. The most important is your political quality and moral quality.”

“[I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land.”

“a woman's place is in the kitchen… sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.”

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”

“What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”