“The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while t...” — James Thurber Quote

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a morally and tactically correct response.

The entertainment business is brutal.

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.