Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.

Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

I have two secret weapons -- my legs, my arms and my brain.

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.