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

Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.

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.

I never say 'No' to anything.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

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

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.