Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

My stories are never quite good enough