Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.