What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

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.

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

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.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.