"It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

Commuter — one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure.

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph (Hebrew Bible)|Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.