Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.