in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.