Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

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.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?