You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.

If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.