Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

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.

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

I have three sons, and I think were both fierce protectors of our children.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

If the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun. Why does the greatest love become the greatest pain?