Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

I think a draft produces a better Army than the one we would have with all volunteers, because I think you get average Americans if you have a draft. And if it's an all-volunteer Army, you get people who join up because of some problem in their own lives. They don't have anything else to do, they don't have a job, or they can't find what they want to do, so they join the Army. And it doesn't produce the best Army.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

Finding the tool is often half the battle.