Middle age is the way you would feel about summer if you knew there would never be another spring.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

It is ridiculous to think that you can spend your entire life with just one person. Three is about the right number. Yes, I imagine three husbands would do it?

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.