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

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

We stand or fall by television.

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

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

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.