If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.

I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.