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

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light. We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think." But I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.