What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.