Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess and honestly practice it make themselves more through a willingness to make themselves less.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.