Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a book. I've never had a very lively literary curiosity, and it has sometimes seemed to me that I am not really a literary fellow at all. Except that I write for a living.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.