“Well, I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.”
Casey Stengel according to Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #2 (Oct./Nov. 2001)
“It is absolutely not true that Philadelphians boo homely brides and clumsy pall-bearers. I was born and raised in Philly, and I know. It may be true that they once booed the Easter Bunny...”
Bob Levin in Maclean’s Oct. 25, 1993
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the death of Rex Murphy is a terrible loss especially because we have also lost the kind of place he held in our national life.
“it was Fran Lebowitz, I think, who said that God created Los Angeles so insomniacs in New York would have a place to call in the middle of the night.”
A writer whose name I did not record in The New Republic Oct. 7, 1991
“Hollywood’s the kind of place where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.”
Philip Marlow, quoted on USA Network Feb. 19, 1989
“He took a Nez approach. As in the opposite of Zen.”
One of mine, from November 20, 2005
“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.”
Ann Landers, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 8, 2009
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”
Fred Allen, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)