LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyers mentality.