No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

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.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.