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Goodman Ace Quotes

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.

Goodman Ace
Health, Body, Forget

I keep reading between the lies.

Goodman Ace
Truth, Lying, Reading
Goodman Ace (1966). “The fine art of hypochondria; or, How are you?”

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

Goodman Ace
Secret, Age, Aging

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace
Clever, Done, Vaudeville
Letter to Groucho Marx, in 'The Groucho Letters' (1967) p. 114

Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament houses. We're all cremated equal. We're insufferable friends. I've been working my head to the bone.

Goodman Ace
House, East, Today

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

Goodman Ace
Father, Cancer, Teenager
The New Yorker (1977)

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Goodman Ace
Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Bedfellows

They call television a medium because nothing's well done.

Goodman Ace
Television, Vaudeville, Done

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