Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.