New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
