Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.

. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

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.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.