"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?"

“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three .”

“The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet.”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.”

“I will read anything rather than work.”

“Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”