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

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

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.

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

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

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.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.