Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

[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.

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

You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.