Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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.
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Be obscure clearly.
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.
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
