I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.