Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.

English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.

Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.