Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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.

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

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.