The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
