Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

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

The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.

England is very dreary, but I'm a people person.

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.

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.