Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.