When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!