“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”
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There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.