The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).