New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.

I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.

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

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

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.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.