Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.