...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.

A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.