Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

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.

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

My wife - she could help me get the negs out!

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

An alternate explanation is not a refutation.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

I like to be absorbed in what my character's doing.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.