I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.