When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

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.

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

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.

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been br

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star.

I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.