The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.