The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

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

I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

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.