It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.