I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.