The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.