like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.