Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

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.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.

Here for business or pleasure, Mr. Wheeler?""Redemption, " Shane says.

The night was full of horrors, and he thought he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.

I'm kind of forced to get out of what might feel more natural and comfortable.

The composition is the organized sum of the interior functions of every part of the work.