It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

In Manhattan, when you're out of the front door, you're on, and you have to be ready to smile and speak to people.

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

I'm too old to make drawings.