If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.