American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is, that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.