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.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen’cause massacre was chosen.~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories

Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

There are two distinct groups of people in the world: the ones who tell stories, and those who pay attention.

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

Medication without explanation is obscene.