“Discussion in America means dissent.”
“He who hesitates is sometimes saved.”
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?”
“Why do you have to a nonconformist like everybody else?”
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
“A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.”
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
“While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.”
“It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”
“You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.”
“He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.”
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
“There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.”
“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.”
“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
“The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.”
“Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.”
“It's a nanve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.”
“The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.”
“Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.”
“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.”
“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”
“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”
“But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?”
“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”