"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have bee..." — Peter De Vries

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.