The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The ideal age for a boy to own a dog is between forty-five and fifty.