She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her nose, and dashed into her bedroom to find a coat.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight

I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.