Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.