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.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.