One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Happier'n young'uns bustin' outta school fer summer break!

(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

Timing is everything with relationships.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.