The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.

A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.

Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.