The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

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.

Life starts with the birth

Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

Life is the longest death in California.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...