If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

Generous gestures yield the most when that isn't their purpose.