Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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.

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 future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.