It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

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

In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.