Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

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.

Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.

Make peace with yourself and you make peace with the world. - Charmainism

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Why are the Jews hated? It is the inevitable result of their laws; they either have to conquer everybody or be hated by the whole human race.

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?