Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

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

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.