"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent." — Jean Kerr

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.