American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.