It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.

All I have learned about horses is that they are beautiful overrated creatures and are all born quite insane.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.