Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

Every good servant does not all commands.