A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
– John Gould
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
– John Gould
Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.
– John Gould
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything that's worth reading.
– John Gould
Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
– John Gould
The best thing you can do is go to work for a country weekly newspaper, and where do you find one? We don't have one today.