Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

I probably have genius. But no talent.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.