Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.