I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds..

There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of sta….

Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding t….

Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you'….

You'll have to leave my meals on a tray outside the door because I'll be working pretty late on the secret of making myself invisible, which may take….

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go..

We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries..

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's..

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money..

To err is human, to forgive supine..

If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may ….

In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility w….

I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, D….

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, w….

FREEDLEY: Will I feel better after I take it? DR. FITCH (coldly): I, am a physician, Freedley, not an astrologer. If you want a horoscope, there's a ….

Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is stric….

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring..

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilab….

A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city..

A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bul….

As for consulting a dentist regularly, my punctuality practically amounted to a fetish. Every twelve years I would drop whatever I was doing and allo….