People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

If you feel the urge to write, just lie down and read a book: it will pass.

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.