A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous...
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
When you're the only pea in the pod your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
When compelled to cook I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.