Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Life is one damned kitten after another." Mehitabel the Alley Cat

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.