To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every...
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy...
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are...
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself he is...
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the...
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get...
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good...
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less...
Be obscure clearly.
Writing is an act of faith not a trick of grammar.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste judgment and education -...
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
The only sense that is common in the long run is the sense of change and we...
Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed...
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the...
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
