You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want -- and what I want now is a drink.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

I love America, but I don't like it.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.