While clothes with pictures and/or writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. ... I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.

I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.