If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.