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.

It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

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

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

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

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.