If I were to search for logic, I would not look for it among the English upper class.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I'm living in an H.G. Wells novel.

No family is ever what it seems from the outside.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

It's the job of grandmothers to interfere.

Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

I find prostitutes vastly important.