Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.