Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

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.

Keeping your coat on indoors in Russia, no matter how public the place, is far worse than keeping your hat on as the flag goes by. It is worse than going into a Catholic church in Spain with your upper arms bare. It is worse than telling a mother her baby bores you.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.