There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .