My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

As for kissing on the first date, you should never date someone whom you would not wish to kiss immediately.