The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.