Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.