If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.

I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.