The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

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

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

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.

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.

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