When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.