Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw — I don't say she will, but she can.

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too much to say, in fact it would be not enough to say, that it was not worth the trouble.