Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a 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.

I just think it’s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

I see no constitutional problems with the identification, staving off and defusing of outside threats.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?