Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.

Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?