[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.