English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a gypsy tearoom over on Lexington Avenue.

As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allow wild Caucasian ponies to drag me to a reputable orthodontist.