"

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audien...more

"

I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many...more

"

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

"

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was...more