If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture.

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.