In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

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.

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.", Issue 64, Winter 1975)

They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.

If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.