The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

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.

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

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

Everything I learn to say or do because I love.

I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!

Art is inside of you; express yourself.

The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

If you do not control the enemy, the enemy will control you

Big up to Flex. Stop taking so much cizock in his mizouth.