Jessica Mitford

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.