Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

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.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.