Self-parody Is The First Portent Of Age.

The Reason Men Are So Awful Is Because Some Woman Has Spoiled Them.

Members Of The Academy Are Mostly Urban People. We Are An Urban Nation. We Are Not A Rural Nation. It's Not Easy Even To Get A Rural Story Made.

Mystery Is Underrated, And Understanding Is Overrated.

Call Listened With Amusement--not That The Incident Hadn't Been Terrible. Being Decapitated Was A Grisly Fate, Whether You Were A Yankee Or Not. But Then, Amusing Things Happened In Battle, As They Did In The Rest Of Life. Some Of The Funniest Things He Had Ever Witnessed Had Occurred During Battles. He Had Always Found It More Satisfying To Laugh On A Battlefield Than Anywhere Else, For If You Lived To Laugh On A Battlefield, You Could Feel You Had Earned The Laugh. But If You Just Laughed In A Saloon, Or At A Social, The Laugh Didn't Reach Deep.

Part Of The Trick Of Being Happy Is A Refusal To Allow Oneself To Become Too Nostalgic For The Heady Triumphs Of One's Youth.