It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.