An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

The myriad choices of his fateSet themselves out upon a plateFor him to chooseWhat had he to lose

To err is human, but it feels divine.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train

These are great days.