Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.