Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

I love reading about the sea. I love reading about it a lot more than actually being on the sea, when you think about it.

In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.