Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

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.

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees.

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

I was a new person in the same world, which was a lot more difficult than being the same person in a new world.

We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.