Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.
I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else-- and better too!
I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited?
Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.
I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.
I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.
All things lie dark in possibility.
I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality.
All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
People are people. Don't be afraid of them.
The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
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