If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist..

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for..

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy..

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too..

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature..

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection..

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars,….

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked..

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe..

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own..

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful..

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate..

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you..

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?.

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'..

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance..

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots o….

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy..