... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.