The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

The most dangerous food a man can eat is wedding cake. Woman like silent men, they think they are listening.

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

If your failure is not a lesson, it's indeed a failure.

Be wise and walk with the wise.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?