Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children

Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.

There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind.

We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

Your physical safety is up to you, as it really always has been.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Art has a smaller audience than, say, movies or other forms of mass consumption. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't have an impact in a way that transcends just a few cultural arbiters.