I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.