Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.