All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

I hate babies. They're so human.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.