I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. |
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. |
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. |
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. |
Western man is schizophrenic. |
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch. |
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats. |
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. |
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write. |
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. |