New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

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.

Oh thee! Lets ignite the fire of love

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess…responsiveness.

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

Men who fear God face life fearlessly. Men who do not fear God end up fearing everything.

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.

A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.