If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own shortsightedness. Undoubtedly it was their fault but somehow for some reason this fell short of the remarkably high standard that you by your own work have set for yourself. They had a way of rejecting my work that made me feel sorry for them somehow.