Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.