Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Dogs are obsessed with being happy.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

Discussion in America means dissent.