You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.

Every one starts out being an atheist.