Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.

Things on the whole are faster in America; people don't stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he's sick, it doesn't mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don't ask for the left-luggage; it's called a checkroom.

Knowing few children of my age with whom to compare notes, I envied the children of literature to whom interesting things were always happening.

Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.