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

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.

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

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.