I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.