You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

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.

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.