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.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.

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.

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.

He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.

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

If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.