Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough..

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..

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk..

a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity..

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever..

Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curl….

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp lef….

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo..

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet..

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is..

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas..

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time..

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it..

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix..

One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in ….

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or an….

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make….

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something e….

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be..

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more ….

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't r….