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

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

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

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

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

There is such a thing as too much couth.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.