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

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

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.

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.