Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

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

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.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.