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"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again."

"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."

"I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in."

"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."

"The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals."

"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."

"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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