All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.

Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.