Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.