Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Be obscure clearly.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

There is about Boston a certain reminiscent and classical tone suggesting an authenticity and piety which few other American cities possess.

All writing is communication creative writing is communication through revelation it is the self escaping into the open.

Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer he bides his time waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge of emotion of strength of courage that will carry him along.

Diplomacy is the lowest form of politeness because it misquotes the greatest number of people. A nation like an individual if it has anything to say should simply say it.

One of the most time consuming things is to have an enemy.

Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.

Books are good company in sad times and happy times for books are people people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

Salutations its just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.