The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.