Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God

The world is what you make of it.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.