Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

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

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

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