The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction.

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.

So much dependsupona blue carsplattered with mudspeeding down the road.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

I started getting interested in the notes that I could hear being generated when I hammered on while playing a classical guitar.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock