A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end.

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.