To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.