The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.