"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."

"Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were."

"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."

"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."

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."

"Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom."

"A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months."

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion it is a joy of every moment."