A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

All good things remain forever for it is God's plan for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!

I sold my soul, you brought it back for me. And held me up, and gave me dignity.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

Life is a series of a thousand tiny miracles.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?