For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

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.

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.

There are no ugly women only lazy ones.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

I'm from California, and still live in LA.