When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

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.

A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

When you associate with scum, you become scum.

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.