You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 2
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
Extremists think ''communication'' means agreeing with them. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0
If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten Polish Novelist More Leo Rosten Quotes 0