Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.