Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

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

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.