If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.