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.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

I think of the author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, 'I will tell you a story' and then he passes the hat.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.