If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'