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

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.