Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.