Occupation: Writer Birth: November 11, 1922 Death: April 11, 2007
Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Da….
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been….
All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so..
We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten..
When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed….
Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency..
Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such ….
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End..
The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full o….
We're here on Earth to fart around.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country..
Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore..
Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the s….
The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up t….
The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans..
The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways..
Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. The….
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural hu….
Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action..
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of….
It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating..