"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland.

Public use of any portable music system is a virtually guaranteed indicator of sociopathic tendencies.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Men are superior to women.

... we must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt

I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed i

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

At twenty-six, Kate, though not promiscuous, had slept with most of the decent men in public life.

The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Fortune Documents the Great Legal Decisions: We think that we may take judicial notice of the fact that the term "bitch" may imply some feeling of endearment when applied to a female of the canine species but that it is seldom, if ever, so used whe

You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long.

We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its ... Did I say socialism?

Concerning the war in Vietnam, Senator George Aiken of Vermount noted in January, 1966, "I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls."

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

... the privileged being which we call human is distinguished from other animals only by certain double-edged manifestations which in charity we can only call "inhuman."

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose.

Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

People say I live in my own little fantasy world... well, at least they *know* me there!

In breeding cattle you need one bull for every twenty-five cows, unless the cows are known sluts.