I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Apathy

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Conflict

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Death and Dying

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

Humankind

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

Indecision

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Lies and Lying

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Men and Women

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

Purpose

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Speed

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

Writers and Writing

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.