Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welterweight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover.

'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.

He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.

It turns you into two people: one of you's very nice, you'll go up to complete strangers and say, 'Come in, come in, sit down, for God's sake, have something. …

You don't marry Mel Brooks, if you don't have a sense of humor. ~ Arthur Penn

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, 'Why limit yourselves?'