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.

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.

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.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

The essence of health is inner balance.

No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

Never underestimate those who you scar.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.