Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

I prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.