I can never forgive God for having invented the French

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

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

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

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.

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