Robert Benchley

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.