All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

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.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.