If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.