Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.