Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.