[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

It's Okay to Play or Work Alone in the Information Age But If We Must Make Headway in this Transformation Age, Collaboration is the Way to Go.

Brothers the bible never says that you should live with your mother, it says leave your mother and father and unite with your wife.

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.