[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.