Occupation: Editor Birth: February 27, 1910 Death: September 28, 1993
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?.
I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music..
We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity..
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse..
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly..
Exercise is an unnatural act..
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else..
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for..
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance..
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel..
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other..
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another..
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring..
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as….
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy..
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter..
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track..
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer..
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning..
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..