Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.