If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.