The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. – Louis Kronenberger
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. – Louis Kronenberger
And there is no question but that you can’t sustain a mood, a dramatic mood of any particular kind, when at the end of the climactic moment of the scene, out come a couple of dancing rabbits with toilet paper. – Rod Serling, quoted in Teaching Literature to Adolescents: Plays by Alan B. Howe