It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.

Astronauts: rotarians in outer space.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.