Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

I'm a great believer in getting checked out because if you know you're OK, you actually feel better; your mind plays a big part of it.

We must calculate not on the weather, nor on fortune, but upon God and ourselves. He may fail us in the gratification of our wishes, but never in the encounter with our exigencies.