I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

Of course cocaine is not adictive, darling. I should know, I've been doing it for years.

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

A frozen daiquiri of a scorching afternoon is soothing. It makes living more tolerable.

A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!