If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

I'm devoted to promiscuity, and always have been. I believe the more you do, the better it is for you. I'm a great health nut, and sex is, I think, absolutely marvelous for the whole system; tones you up.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.