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.

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.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

Only cowards insult dying majesty.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.

I must have my share in the conversation.

I had a lovely pregnancy. It was a beautiful, magical time for us.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

The key to getting work done on time is to stop wearing a watch.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.