It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation, like an individual, if it has anything to say, should simply say it.

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