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

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure

Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him

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

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic