Most rich people are the poorest people I know.

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.