No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

Be the star of your life.

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

I'm not a big shopper.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

My people do not come to me of their own accord; it is I who seek and bring them to me.

Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.

I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.