Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

Style is important, but content comes first.

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.

All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad.

I learned about lifefrom life itself, love I learned in a single kissand could teach no one anythingexcept that I have livedwith something in common among men.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

It's good to remember the unburied dead and the uncollected rubbish. Most of it can now be seen on the Labour benches in the House of Commons.

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.