When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.

Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.