I never really found out what love was.

It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.

I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.