White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.
All of television’s appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.
It’s very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn’t make up yourself – a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
The downfall of most diets is that they restrict your intake of food.
If people don’t want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
Citizen’s Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.
There’s too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it’s the way of having the least contact with human beings.
Frenchman: Germans with good food.
New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the ’50s said it was going to be.
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.
Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you’re eating dinner.
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.
I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work.
Writing pornography is deadly, nothing duller. I mean a toll-taker has a more exciting life than a pornographer.