The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.