A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock

Texas is killing people in the 73rd trimester.

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.

He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.