The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.