The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

It is time we learnt that a terrorist is no man's friend and everyman's enemy.

Here's to Never Growing up

The moment you have subtitles and you have to speak Chinese, you already limit your global audience.

All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.