A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything