I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.