The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.

Eternity is a ham and two people.