The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.