There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.