Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Very little happens in my books.

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.