If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.