The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.