A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.