Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish--about half of our social conscience, indeed. Both of them permit us, in blessed moments of revelation, to soar above the common level of our lives.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.