American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; they are the strongest, most comforting thing there is anywhere: they are the voices of my comrades.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

Doctrine does matter. But one must ever be reminded that to be right on doctrine does not mean one is right with the Lord.

I don't want anyone to tell me something.

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.