To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Be obscure clearly.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.