All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends.

Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

My definition of a man's man is a man who knows gun safety, and we all did.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.