It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

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.

Prayer is not supposed to be magical.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.

In Zen we do everything perfectly. We feel that our outer actions are a reflection of our inner state. We call it mindfulness.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.