Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.

There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Anyone who says I would never hit a woman hasn't met my x girlfriend.

Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.