Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.