Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

Humourists lead... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.