The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

new york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.