Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.

If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.