For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.

I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.